People call me paranoid, but after my dad’s MS Surface spontaneously encrypted itself and lost the recovery keys, my belief is that what you described is the goal they are working towards.
Apple already does all of this along with client side scanning and MS is falling over itself to implement the same ecosystem.
Hardware alone is not a working computer. If you control the software running on your computer then that software is yours (like it’s your book on your bookshelf even though another owns the copyright to it). If someone else controls yours computer then that erodes your ownership of the computer.
The benevolence! Your own computer can do whatever you want it to… if MS agrees to it.
Our luck was that personal computers existed before phones. The fact computing is open is a miracle.
Microsoft would love to only sell computers with locked bootloaders, enforced DRM, locked down stores. Imagine having to jailbreak your desktop.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
People call me paranoid, but after my dad’s MS Surface spontaneously encrypted itself and lost the recovery keys, my belief is that what you described is the goal they are working towards.
Apple already does all of this along with client side scanning and MS is falling over itself to implement the same ecosystem.
Your computer, their software.
Hardware alone is not a working computer. If you control the software running on your computer then that software is yours (like it’s your book on your bookshelf even though another owns the copyright to it). If someone else controls yours computer then that erodes your ownership of the computer.
That you should have the option to run locally without calling back to home base without a special pass from MS.
You do! It’s called Linux.